298 MR. SOUTHWELL ON ADDITIONS TO THE NORWICH CASTLE-MUSEUM. 
Worcester describe a new Owl as Ninox spilonotus, but do not 
particularise wherein it differs from N. spilocephala, Tw., with 
which, however, their new species has been compared. It is 
evident that this variable species comes very close to N. spilonotus , 
and I am confirmed in so thinking by the skin labeled ‘ Cebu, 
March 17th, 1888, female,’ which Mr. Worcester kindly sent to 
Norwich some time ago, and which has been added to the Museum, 
and mounted for our growing series of Ninox. 
“Two photographs of a couple of Californian Vulture’s Eggs, one 
from Obisko country and the other from near Cambria, have been 
given by Mr. G. Frean Morcom, who has ascertained that this 
grand Condor occasionally has two young ones. Happily he has 
also ascertained that there are two or three little known haunts 
where Pseudogryphus californianus is still far from being 
exterminated. Writing under date of July, 1896, Mr. Morcom 
says, that only six eggs are known to him in collections, of which 
one is at Norwich, where on the shelf by the photographs ‘it will 
be found in a box.” 
In addition to the species above mentioned, which are new to 
the collection, the Museum has received eleven Birds of Prey, the 
most noteworthy of which are Lophotriorchis kieneri, and Bulaca 
leptogrammica from Baram ; Hieraglaux punctulata and Strix 
rosenbergii from Celebes ; two large Hornbills ( Rhytidoceros 
subruficollis and Anorrhinus comatus), also specimens of Argusianus 
grayi, Euplocomus nobilis, Plotus melanogaster, Treron nasica, 
and Pitta baudi, all from Sarawak, ef. ‘ Ibis,’ 1893, p. 381, for 
which, with several other species, in all forty-six skins of Mammals 
and Birds from Borneo and Celebes, all of which are sent to 
the Museum, the Committee are indebted to the liberality of 
Mr. Charles Hose, of Baram, Borneo. Mr. Gurney has also 
contributed a few other desiderata, among which are a specimen of 
Apteryx bulleri and the curious Wry-billed Sandpiper (Anarhynchus 
frontalis) from New Zealand. A very good specimen of the 
singular Kakapo or Owl Pai'rot ( Stringops habroptilus) has been 
presented by Mr. James Peeve, which has been placed in the 
general collection, the other specimens possessed by the Museum 
being in a separate case in the centre of the room. Many other 
additions are recorded in the Report which do not call for special 
mention. 
